A couple of months back I signed up for Hoopla through my local library. Hoopla gives me access to thousands of albums via electronic download. Now that I have extra time to play around with, I decided to try to find an album we played to death the summer I ran away down south and…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Justice*
image link *warning: content may offend some readers Today’s poem is in the triquain form. we found you violating a child trial by villagers; sentenced to death burned at the stake in a bonfire at the churchyard we spread your ashes over our fields you’ve helped feed us for years we give thanks …
Flint: Try to Explain
image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Sorry to Bother You – No You’re Not! I was finally able to borrow a copy of, “Sorry to Bother You” from my local branch of the library and watched it last night. Although I had a general idea of what it was about, I’d purposely kept myself ignorant of spoilers and wanted to go…
Poetry — Peaky Blinders
image link Today’s form is a limerick Peaky Blinders A man with a roving eye’s sneaky so’s not to get caught doing peeky if his wife catches him for him it’ll be grim and he’ll sleep on the couch for a weeky. Word of the Day Challenge — roving
Poetry Day 31 — One
Today’s prompt, the final one for OctWriPoMo2018, is Endless. The form I chose is cinquain. It’s been very satisfying writing a poem a day for this challenge. The picture with today’s poem is one I drew based upon a dream I had not long ago. One Endless life death cycle arising, setting sun, joy and…
Poetry — Dunes
image link Dunes Wander through woodlands along sandy trails hearing lake’s whooshing up dunes and down vales a shimmering guide orange-pink rivulet reaching the crest to see the sun set Click the link to see a nice youtube video with the whooshing sound of Lake MI: Lake Michigan, water against the shore Word of…
